Dick Tracy

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comic strips

...daily newspapers. In 1963 there were more than 300 different syndicated strips in the United States, but the number was down to 200 in 1975.
Pogo and
Dick Tracy reached more than 50 million readers in more than 500 newspapers.
Superman comics circulated in the 1950s at the rate of 1.5 million monthly; in 1943 American comic books...

creation by Gould

Gould studied cartooning through a correspondence school, briefly drew sports cartoons in Oklahoma, then worked for the
Chicago Daily News. “
Dick Tracy” was first distributed in 1931 by the Chicago Tribune–New York News Syndicate, Inc.; its underlying code of “crime doesn’t pay” and its support of tough and often violent law enforcement were widely...